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Quite awhile back I posted a webcomic by the guys over at Sci-ence! all about “The Red Flags of Quackery” that was a nice little primer on the buzz words and concepts that should warn you that you’re dealing with pseudoscience woo-woo bullshit. Now they’ve gone and put out a new version 2.0 of the comic: . . . → Read More: Sci-ence! updates “The Red Flags of Quackery” to version 2.0. 
NASA brings us a fascinating image of where the trees are within the United States: Where the Trees Are : Image of the Day.
Click for full humongous size! Trees are one of Earth’s largest banks for storing the carbon that gets emitted by natural processes and human activities. Forests cover about 30 percent . . . → Read More: Where the Trees Are in the U.S. I’m not a heavy drinker and I’ve been drunk a handful of times in my life and only been drunk enough to have the room spin maybe twice in my life so I don’t have a lot of first-hand experience with this effect. For those of you who do, however, and who have wondered why . . . → Read More: An explanation for the spinning sensation you get when you’re really drunk. Sometimes I can’t help but be awed at what physicists are accomplishing in the lab. How cold is cold enough? Eliminating entropy picokelvins from absolute zero When you think about the temperatures associated with “cold,” you probably imagine a cold winter day, or a block of ice (32 °F, 0 °C, or 273.15 K). This . . . → Read More: The quest for Absolute Zero temperature comes a step closer to reality. From the Never-Thought-This-Was-A-Problem department: Premature Orgasm Affects Women Too, Study Suggests – LiveScience “At one extreme are women who have a complete control over their orgasm,” he and his colleagues write in a report to be published in the journal Sexologies. “[At] the other extreme is a group of women who report having a lack . . . → Read More: It turns out that premature orgasm is a problem for some women. 
Measles is one of those childhood diseases that used to be a huge problem, but thanks to the creation of a vaccine in 1963 it was nearly eradicated from the United States. At least up until Jenny McCarthy and the other anti-vaccination idiots started spreading FUD and claiming that vaccines caused autism. Now it’s once more on . . . → Read More: Thanks to anti-vaxers like Jenny McCarthy, measles outbreaks on the increase. 
As found over at Atheism and Me. 
The conventional wisdom for years has been that if you want to stay healthy you should take vitamin supplements every day, but a growing body of evidence is showing that, not only is it not necessary, it could be damaging to your health: More Evidence Against Vitamin Use – NYTimes.com. “You go back 15 or 20 . . . → Read More: Two more studies suggest that taking vitamin supplements may do more harm than good. 
It’s been four centuries since the Catholic church persecuted Galileo for his theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun only to later admit that the evidence backed him up. Heliocentrism is the official stance of the Church today. But there’s a group of Catholics out there that still think Galileo was wrong and the . . . → Read More: There’s still a few Catholics out there who think the Earth is the center of the Universe. A small clip from Real Time With Bill Maher in which Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about the budget problems at NASA: Found over at Atheist Media Blog. My earliest memories are from the 1970′s — being born in 1967 it took a few years before I could remember much of anything — and I can recall . . . → Read More: “We stopped dreaming.” A mini-rant from Neil deGrasse Tyson. |
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